Federal efforts to combat health care fraud recovered a record $4.3 billion in fiscal 2013 and have recouped more than $8 for every $1 spent on enforcement over the past three years, according to an annual report released Wednesday. ...
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We really need to talk about bladder cancer Of the top 10 cancers in the UK, bladder cancer is only one where survival rates have been shown to be getting worse. New figures published this month in the Journal of Clinical Urology confirm ...
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A new study in General Hospital Psychiatry finds patients visiting the hospital for a variety of ailments can be easily screened for depression and anxiety as they wait for care, information that can then be sent immediately to their doctor ...
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Wolters Kluwer Health and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)—the preeminent provider of musculoskeletal education to orthopaedic surgeons and others in the world—announced today an agreement to publish the ...
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A team of French investigators has discovered viruses containing genes for antibiotic resistance in a fossilized fecal sample from 14th century Belgium, long before antibiotics were used in medicine. They publish their findings ahead of ...
Beginning in 2017, all gasoline sold in the US must contain less than 10 parts per million sulfur, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, dismissing oil industry arguments that the new standard is unnecessary and could ...
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Smartphones rank among the top technology products owned and/or used, and both smartphones and tablets rank among the top five devices used to connect to the Internet across all the countries surveyed in the Consumer Electronics ...
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has requested that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdraw a proposed rule that would drastically lower the permissible exposure limit (PEL) of crystalline silica ...
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5 phone will launch in April and will the first smartphone to feature a dedicated heart rate monitor. Mounted near the device's flash, the monitor requires users to place a finger on the sensor to measure the pulse ...
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Market research firm Canadean has rsaid the Japanese plastic packaging industry is in rapid growth, with flexible and rigid plastics packaging demand projected to increase by 6.9 billion packs between 2012 and 2017. “Japanese ...
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BASF increased its energy efficiency by 20 percent compared with baseline 2002 and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions per metric ton of sales product by 34 percent. The number of work-related accidents dropped in the same period by 58 ...
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IBM today launched the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge(www.ibmwatson.com),a first of its kind,global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by Watson.IBM announced the challenge at ...
SELF, a brand owned by Condé Nast, has unveiled SELF Healthy Kitchen, a new line of frozen meals, marking its foray into packaged foods segment. The company has teamed up with chef Calvin Harris, CEO of Benevida Foods, to create ...
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Chosen Foods is expanding its cooking oil line up and introducing the product at Natural Products Expo West in March. All in all, the fast growing health food company will introduce nine new products at the event. The first exclusive ...
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Verbal memory appears to be a predictor of clinical remission in patients with first-episode psychosis, according to Canadian researchers writing in Schizophrenia Research. Martin Lepage (Douglas Mental Health University Institute, ...
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